I have a situation and I am not sure how to solve it.
I am using a script in Google Tag Manager to define where marketing sources are coming from (i.e. organic search, organic social, paid search, referral, direct traffic, etc.).
I am taking the data from that script and storing it in a 1st party cookie & first party cookie variable.
However, I need the data from the cookie to populate in the URL query string, similar to how utms populate in a query string when someone clicks a Google Ad.
For example, when someone clicks on a Google ad, they arrive on the landing page and the URL looks something like this www.examplesite.com/?utm_source=Google&utm_medium=ppc&utm_campaign=example
I need similar functionality to that. So in my example, if someone came from an organic search result, I would want it to look like this:
www.examplesite.com/?Source=Organic&SourceDetail=Google.
Is this even possible to do on the initial page?
Yes, there are a few ways of going around it. I will only highlight the most elegant option, but first, you don't need to touch your query string. You can override the string that is being sent to GA with GTM. It's a lot more elegant than tinkering with the user-exposed front-end. Here is how:
That's how you override your location dimension (dl) in your pageview tag.
Now the only thing that remains is to make that custom javascript variable returning a string that would be just your current url with the proper utm-params appended to it.
This is a very clean and non-intrusive implementation. You can also do it on a GA settings variable level, which may be even a better solution, depending on your situation.
Also, you can override your source/medium using an event, rather than a pageview, but be careful with events. A change of source/medium will force GA to generate a brand new session for this user. That is done to be able to build different attribution models on the same dataset.
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I am working on a something similar to Disqus, and I created a third-party javascript snippet which the user will embed in the website and have a rating widget for each article. Users can rate the article using the widget. Everything is working, the server is making the request, but I am making the article object instance explicitly.
I need to automate this, like for a new article on the website, checking the request is coming from the authenticated website and create a new rating widget in the Database in Django and Django-rest-framework.
I am using Python 2.7.
Question:
How do I automatically save the headline of the new article, if its new and authenticated in the database?
I know that I need to use a model to implement this, but I am unsure how to do the actual implementation.
EDIT:
Let's say this is the query
https://example.com/embed/comments/?base=default&version=edb619270a92c3035c453faa7c9444d1&f=example&t_i=article_2431522&t_u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.firstpost.com%2Fbollywood%2Flatest-trailer-of-spectre-is-out-james-bond-is-back-all-guns-and-cars-blazing-2431522.html%09&t_e=Latest%20trailer%20of%20%27Spectre%27%20is%20out%3A%20James%20Bond%20is%20back%20all%20guns%20and%20cars%20blazing&t_d=Latest%20trailer%20of%20%27Spectre%27%20is%20out%3A%20James%20Bond%20is%20back%20all%20guns%20and%20cars%20blazing&t_t=Latest%20trailer%20of%20%27Spectre%27%20is%20out%3A%20James%20Bond%20is%20back%20all%20guns%20and%20cars%20blazing&s_o=default
In my model I need save the following, like f to forum (where forum=models.CharField("short name", max_length=30, unique=True)
I know I need to parse the url for every &, but don't know how. I checked the documentation of rest-framework, but I didn't get the gist of it.
`f ---->forum,
t_i----> identifier,
t_u----> url
t_s----> slug,
t_e----> title,
t_d----> documentTitle,
t_t----> title || documentTitle,
t_c ---->category,
s_o----> sortOrder,
l----> language`
What's the best practice to save?
Hope this helps
I'm going to just answer the question you stated at the end: "How do I automatically save the headline of the new article"
You're right, you'll need to create an Article model that mirrors the 3rd party site's articles.
It'll need to have a field for the title/headline (probably CharField), make sure you make it big enough and/or deal with cases where the title is bigger.
You'll also need a unique ID for each article. Ideally, rather than using Django's default, you'll use whatever the 3rd party site is using as the unique ID as a One to One mapping.
Then whenever a request comes in you can use the get_or_create method to ensure the article exists in your DB.
I am looking for a way to use Jquery (or any other open source script) to pull the URL of a particular webpage. I am working on a service that will pull the original URL of any webpage - consider a scenario where I load google.com but have entered yahoo.com in the address bar (without pressing enter key) - the script should be able to validate if the the URL on the address bar is the same as the actual URL or if it is different.
There is no way to do this. And there better not be any in the making. There is no reason to need such information, and it's a violation of user privacy.
No dear, Absolutely no way to do this.
and i agree with #bjb568 , its definitely violation of user privacy.
you can get the current page URL in your script.
But why you need this kind of functionality.?
i will advise you to find any alternative of your requirement,
You can get the current location of the page using regular Javascript, but I do not think you can get the currently typed address bar, although I do not see where you should ever need to.
In response to everyone on here saying it is a breach of user privacy: I don't think grabbing the URL or the typed address bar on the current page is a breach of privacy or security unless you are somehow able to change the address bar to make it seem like you are on a different site - like being on Google.com and it saying you are on Yahoo.com. But, from the OP's original question, it just seems like he wants to get the information; not change it.
Using Javascript, you can use var location = document.location.href
The closest you can get to change the addressbar is window.history.pushState(), but browsers have a security settings that do not allow domains outside of the current domain to be used.
My first question that comes to mind: "Why on earth does he want to do that???" If it was possible you would have to interact with each browser directly which is not possible.
jQuery is just a client-language that interprets with each browsers "engine" (that handles rendering of html, javascript etc) and not the browser itself (menus, settings etc). Secondly, if it would work: How often would you check? Each keypress? Every 10 seconds? It would not be doable in a proper way - even if it was possible.
I think you should rethink your issue and try to explain why you want to do this. It might be other (better) solutions that would handle your issue in a better way.
SETUP:
Having a few different information sites/domains about my products and one single site/domain shop-site where you the purchase, checkout and so on happens, I'm having troubles to find a proper solution for a comprehensive tracking of all the pages including the conversion tracking.
IDEAL:
What I want is to get reports seperated for each site (shop-site as well as information-sites), but add some conversion tracking. Ideal would be to be able to track a conversion when the user gets to the checkout process, so that I can see it in the statistics of the shop-site as well as on the site that referred to this sale/conversion and maybe even a funnel visualisation for the whole action.
WHAT I ALREADY GOT:
I already set up statistics for each site/domain. I do have set events for a referal to the shop-site as well as an event when the user checks out.
WHAT I TRIED:
I set up cross domain tracking for one of my information-sites and the shop-site, so now the events show up in that single property.
Unfortunately thats not the statistic I intend to get, as the whole data got consolidated from those 2 properties. Also it made the tracking goal/conversion only accessible for that single property, while I can't distinguish between a conversion made originally from this site or one of the others.
Is it possible to achieve what I actually intend to do or what's the proper way to track such a setup??
You can either use an additional tracker (so you have one UA id that goes in your "normal" domain, one that goes in your shpooing site and one that is placed on both sites) - you'd still have both pages tracked in separate properties, but you'd have one rollup property that tracks all your sites. This might however unwanted complexity if you use event tracking etc (since you'd have to see to it that events are always pushed to the correct tracker).
An easier solutions is via views/profiles - use the same UA id for both sites; create views based on domain name (filter in the admin section) to track each site separately; for the common data view that display data from both sites create a filter that includes the hostname in the reports so you can tell both sites apart in the report.
This is sort of a generic "Good Idea/Bad Idea question".
My scenario: I am writing an ASP.NET MVC3 app that is just 1 page (one View/Controller). This view shows a grid of "Cases" and when a user clicks one of these Cases, I use jquery ajax ($.ajax) to swap out the visible portion of the page and load the details of this Case (but never change the page).
Still with me? Thanks!
Now, once this new Case detail view is shown, the user can edit the Case in one of many ways. Change the priority, change the status, etc. I am using jquery's ajax function for this as well.
My question: How should I store the Case ID? Is it ok to store it in the HTML? Is there a better place to store it?
All of the Cases have a Guid ID, and currently when the Case details are loaded (using ajax) I add a custom attribute to the Case detail view <div> so I know the Case ID. This means that the Case ID is visible to anybody viewing the page source. I thought about using jQuery's .data() function to store it, which wouldn't be visible to page source, but would be accessible from Firebug other inspector tools.
What is the best practice for this? I really can't imagine how my user's would do anything with the Case ID, but I am trying to be a bit paranoid here.
Thanks in advance for any thoughts! And thanks for reading this novel!
There's very little you can do about things which the browser gets to see in any fashion, since code and data in the DOM are not protected from the user.
Obviously you don't want to send anything to a user who is not allowed to see that information - so you don't want to do any client-side filtering of data that is dependent upon user role.
But as for internal data, you just have to protect your perimeter - methods can't accept ids which are mismatched (i.e. an account id which is only valid for a different customer being submitted) - but there's very little you can do about the ids themselves.
By sending the case ID from the server to the browser, you are giving it to the user. If you don't want the user to have the case ID, don't send it to the browser.
I'd provide some sort of sanitized, "imaginary" ID if you're that concerned. If this were running in a loop, I'd suggest basing it on the loop index.
Ultimately however, you'll need to use some sort of unique identifier on the Case that will identify it in ajax calls to the database.
Really though, I've done the same thing before and just encoded the ID field in the markup, and it's rarely mattered. This ID is only a harmful thing to have out in the open if your security is lax. If you've secured your database and have a decent level of security on the app, then you should be fine. If you haven't, then you have bigger things to worry about than markup.
Could anyone clarify how the GA actions _gaq.push(['_link', <href>]); and _gaq.push(['_linkByPost', <form>]); work?
I'm not interested on how to use them as presented in the documentation. I understand those scenarios. I want to know more about what they do when called.
Edit:
I suspect how this works but I need some confirmation from someone that fiddled with this longer than me. I want to know what the process is in each of the cases in small steps. I know that it changes the sent data in order to overwrite to cookie on the target site, but I need to know exactly the actions that happen (in terms of JavaScript on the sending page) after you do the push.
I would also like to know if I could use _gaq.push(['_link', <href>]); from anywhere in my code to change the page.
Thank you,
Alin
We will assume _gaq.push(['_setAllowLinker', true]); used on any needed page.
What _gaq.push(['_link', <href>]); does:
Appends the __utm<x> cookies to <href>. You need to return false in the onclick of the anchor so that the original link does not follow through.
Changes the browser location to the newly formed URL.
What _gaq.push(['_linkByPost', <form>]); does:
Changes the action attribute of <form> so that it includes the __utm<x> cookies.
What happens on the target page:
The GA script on the target page checks the received parameters and if the __utm<x>s are sent it overwrites its own cookies with these. This results in identifying the user as being the same on that left your original page.
As a bonus _gaq.push(['_link', <href>]); can be used in (almost) any situation window.open(<href>); can be used.
They pass the cookie information from one domain to another; in the instance, it does this by appending a query string on the next page; with _linkByPost, it sends the cookie information as GET parameters on the form action along with your POST data.
If _setAllowLinker is set to true on the target page, the cookie information sent will overwrite the default Google Analytics cookies on the target page, and will allow for linked, consistent session information between the two, as the cookies will ensure that consistent data is shared.
EDIT:
No, you can't call it from anywhere in your page, unless you bind it to an onclick of where you'd like it called.